Crimean War Memorial, Scutari
Created by (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti
Partly made by J. & W. Freeman of Penryn
Date: 1857
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: stone - marble, stone - granite
Notes: 'The monument [...] was recently about to be shipped in the barque Kyanite, of Plymouth, Capt. James Handford, which vessel, after taking on board the sculptured marble in London, was to proceed to Penryn, and there receive the granite base and pedestal, worked in the quarries of Messrs. J. and W. Freeman, and thence convey it to Constantinople' (The Builder, 31 October 1857, p. 628).
Locations of Works
Located at The Old Barrack Hospital Scutari | View on map
The monument is about half a mile to the south of the Barack Hospital in the cemetery at Haidar Pasha. (Information submitted by Mike Hinton).
Sources
The Builder, Vol. XIV, 12 July 1856
12 July 1856
p. 381
The Builder, Vol. XV, 31 October 1857
31 October 1857
p. 628
Citing this record
'Crimean War Memorial, Scutari', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib5_1246360816, accessed 01 Feb 2023]
